Date of Award
7-1936
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
First Advisor
Ralph A. Fritz
Keywords
Nursing, Study and teaching, Junior colleges, Curricula
Abstract
Problem. To determine (1) to what extent schools of nursing are utilizing the facilities of public junior colleges to aid in nursing education (2) what different plans for offering the elements of a nursing curricula are in use in public junior colleges and (3) how such plans compare with those in use in university schools of nursing.
Methods of Procedure. (1) Letters were sent to Secretaries of State Boards of Nurse Examiners in the states having public junior colleges to ask for the names of schools of nursing that were in any way utilizing the facilities of junior colleges to aid in nursing education. (2) Bulletins were obtained from these junior colleges, supplemented where necessary by letters to the schools of nursing, and from a study of these the plans in use were classified as (a) offerings of pre-nursing curricula (b) enrollment of student nurses in a few junior college courses and (c) integration of the school of nursing into the junior college. (3) Only the plans of the two schools that are integral parts of junior colleges seemed to merit study in detail. These were evaluated by comparison with plan in use in university schools. (4) The pre-nursing prescriptions of twenty-one schools of nursing requiring college credit for admission were studied to determine what subjects schools of nursing were finding of most value in pre-nursing curricula. (5) Bulletins of twenty or more collegiate schools of nursing were studied to find such plans as might, at least with some modification to fit a two-year curriculum, be used by junior colleges.
Findings. (1) The use of the junior college to aid in nursing education has not increased to the extent predicted in former studies of the problem. (2) The most frequent contribution of the junior college toward our present nursing education is the offering of pre-nursing courses. (3) A small group of schools is enrolling student nurses in some of the classes of the junior colleges. Science classes are most frequently enrolled for. (4) Only two schools are found which are integral parts of junior colleges; at least thirty-eight are integral parts of senior colleges or universities. (5) Directors of schools of nursing located where connections with senior colleges or universities is not practical should investigate the possibility of securing accrediting for school of nursing courses through some connection with junior colleges. No one of the plans studied can be recommended as best in every situation, but where the type of organization and policies of the two institutions are enough in accord integration of the school of nursing with the junior college seems the most desirable plan.
Recommended Citation
Landers, Sister Mary Xavier, "Nursing education in public junior colleges" (1936). Electronic Theses & Dissertations. 817.
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/etd/817
